US television network NBCUniversal has ended its relationship with real estate developer Donald Trump and his Miss USA and Miss Universe shows after controversial remarks he made in announcing his 2016 presidential bid.

The pageants, which were part of a joint venture between NBC and Trump, would no longer air on NBC “due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants”, the company said in a statement.

Mr Trump was already not going to take part in The Apprentice on NBC, a show in which he uses his signature “You’re fired” as he eliminates competitors.

The network said Celebrity Apprentice licensed from United Artists Media Group would continue.

The West has more to do with the Hong Kong protest movement than it would like us to know. It’s the ugly face of Washington’s long-standing foreign policy directed at destabilizing one of its long-standing economic foes: China.

The same media that has spent years dragging Assange’s name through the mud is now engaging in a blackout on his treatment. If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you’re going to be disappointed.

Think about who gets rich off of the Venezuela regime-change agenda. It’s the same people that said we had to invade Iraq in order to prevent nuclear apocalypse. It’s the same people who said the world would stop turning on its axis if we didn’t carpet bomb Libya and Syria.